As a former cake decorator, I can say with authority that there is nothing worse than dropping the cake that you just worked so hard on (especially when you are on a tight schedule with many, many more orders to fill)! But I would never dream of actually sending a customer away with it!!!

Such an amazing opportunity for more f ups. This site continues to fascinate me - I can't stop checking in every morning. Love all those funny people out there with their comments. Jen and John seem to bring out the best in them. People aren't nearly so funny where I live. Norine

thstakiSuch an amazing opportunity for more f ups. This site continues to fascinate me - I can't stop checking in every morning. Love all those funny people out there with their comments. Jen and John seem to bring out the best in them. People aren't nearly so funny where I live. Norine

As a teen (1980's) my spouse was half of delivery team for a bakery. One hotter-than-Hades August Saturday morning they tried to deliver a huge wedding cake, but the reception hall was locked up tight. They made their other delivery then returned to find the reception beginning. Naturally, the cake disembowled itself in the middle of the room. They called the bakery & by the time they got back a new cake was waiting. This one survived they trek & the team recieved a standing ovation from the guests.

Totally off topic here, but I thought of you guys this morning. They had a thing on the radio asking "Is it okay to give a cake to your daughter for her first period?" OMG. All I could think about was you guys.

What a shame, some of those looked really good. Love the geometric mad hatter looking one. I'm so glad you didn't post this a couple of weeks back. I just made my first wedding cake and I was scared stiff that I'd drop it or it would collapse or something else horrible would happen. Thankfully it all got there and stacked up neatly and was very well received. No wrecks here thankyouverymuch!

Cake #1 looks like it had a moisture problem -- I recognize the mud slide effect from when I was living in L.A. But Cake #3 -- what happened there? It reminds me of the turkey in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. One little nick and it collapses.

Cake # 4 was beautiful once -- there is a woman in the background holding a stick or a chair leg. I hope she wasn't out for vengence.

At first I thought you were posting partially eaten/cut-up cakes, as that is what the first one looks like. Was that really how it was presented? Looks like they tried to fix it with the server and napkins--guess that didn't work!

Did this remind anyone of the Cake Boss episode were the two guys drop the giant cake down the stairs of the bakery? At least they were able to redo it before they made it to the delivery spot...

WV: flatipse--you hope the cakes will remain flat, but then oops, they go tipse!

Okay, so as a non-native english speaker and longtime dedicated follower of Jens every joke, I desperately need to know what's so funny about "torte law". It's probably something obvious that I'm just not getting.

And also, what's up with everyone's "wv: random word creation" on here? I could swear that you probably get asked this on every post, but to my surprise I couldn'd find any answers to this.

I think it is every cake artists worst nightmare to have a cake collapse or drop or tip over. Support, Support, Support! My biggest agony is the delivery to the hall....ask my husband..I am a total WRECK by the time we get it there.

As for torte law, I'm laughing so hard here. I remember my 1L "Torts" class, I was like "WTF is 'torts'? Isn't that a dessert? And why the heck am I learning about desserts in law school." I figured, what the heck, can't be too bad though if it's about dessert. Imagine my disappointment when the class wasn't at all about desserts.

On our wedding day, the baker made 2 cakes for different occasions and frosted them backwards. We got a white cake instead of a carrot cake, and we had chosen a very heavy topper. It fell off and broke in pieces. Luckily, my sister-in-law arranges flowers well, so she grabbed some and made a new topper for us. It all looked great, but it wasn't what we had planned. In our staged photographs, the topper is on the cake, but when we actually cut it, it has flowers.

Sadly there is not much to say besides the fact that... that... nope I still got nothing. Wait! This is truly a Wrecky day. I mean look at then on their side, deflated, a bite taken from them, or the dreadful Cakequakes. Its a nightmare

Yeesh! I once had a wedding cake split in the car during the delivery trip (it had a swathe of 125 royal icing roses draped down the side, and it just pulled apart) - but I FIXED it before I left, and I even got comments later about how "beautiful" it was!

Tinu: I can't answer the "torte law" question, as I'm not quite getting it either...but the wv: is the word verification we have to put in in order to post. They are usually random letters, but sometimes people try to say them, and make up a definition for them.

Tinu and kristina: A 'torte' is a type of cake, and 'tort law' refers to a type of lawsuit, usually having to do with someone else's negligence, I believe. The 'e' in 'torte' is silent, so they're pronounced the same. Hope that helps!

I really wish you could/would post the names of the bakeries so that others could avoid the same fate! And if I was the bride of #3, I'd have shoved a piece in the bakers face, not the groom's, AFTER I got my money back!

I am laughing so hard I can't breathe.. Cake and Hines lol..I would wonder if the people that dropped off those cakes actually ran off like a flash once they saw how ruined they were. I know I would be pretty mad if I ordered a beautiful cake and then came.. those. Doom would follow.

Oh my goodness! I had to literally laugh out loud at this post, simply because I have a friend, J. Crocker, who just got married to a woman with the name of E. Hines!!! Their cakes were awesome (and tasty!) and I just couldn't help but giggle! Here are a couple pics, just because I'm still giggling!

Cake #1 looks like the bride shoved new hubby’s face right in it after she found out about him and her best friend. Perhaps someone took a couple fistfuls to start a food fight?

Even if Cake #2 hadn’t slid all over the place, it was still a CCC (haaaawk patooie) – doomed from the start. Was it supposed to be a seashell? Poor birthday girl.

Cake #3 seems like it’s still in a kitchen, so perhaps the bakery took a picture of their “oopsie” and sent a replacement. I’d really like to think that. Let’s go with that. I’m optimistic. It looked like it was a nice smooth cake, but still...what’s up with the lettuce/seaweed strips? LOL, I like the Stay-Puff marshmallow man reference!

Cake #4 is a just shame because it wasn’t wrecky before that.

Cake #5 – ugh. I’m not much for coconut cake anyway.

Cake #6 again, a simple, pretty cake, but oops. Was the tablecloth all “scrunchy” to offset the crack in the cake or did the cake slip and the tablecloth went with it?

Cake #7 looks like it was in a hot car too long. Why is there a dark green airbrushed square on the side of a blue & white cake (with yellow & pink accents)? Yuck.

Ha! After spending hours decorating my son's Lightning McQueen cake, I put it in the cold oven to keep the cats away until party time. Then I preheated the oven to cook a pizza and forgot the cake until I smelled the oh-so lovely aroma of melting plastic from my cake board. My twice-baked cake survived, albeit a little crunchy. ;)

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